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🎒 A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/a-private-space-company-has-a-radical-new-plan-to-bag-an-asteroid/

A private space company has a radical new plan to bag an asteroid
Company has previously tested its technology on the International Space Station.

It started with a headline in the Guardian, some old memory of Minitel made me click. I stopped reading after I read about Félicette. A cat that went into space and came back alive.
#cats #space #forgottenheroes

A rubbish challenge: how do we dump space junk? Modern life depends on space-based infrastructure, but there’s a lot of junk orbiting alongside working spacecraft. Katherine Courtney and Alice Gorman talk to Margaret Harris about the danger of #SpaceDebris – and what we need to do about it: https://physicsworld.com/a/a-rubbish-challenge-how-do-we-dump-space-junk/ (looong).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DreamTime
Space Ghost:
🎵 Forest Dub
#SpaceGhost
https://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/track/forest-dub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0nMfiQn1r0dYoWbZznBp6q

Ending the Tuesday of IETF 125 with the SPACE Research Group… looking at all things related to the #Internet in #space !
#IETF

👨‍🚀 Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
#space

Space station crew credits ultrasound machine for handling in-orbit health crisis
The astronauts evacuated last week from the International Space Station say a portable ultrasound machine came in "super handy" during the medical crisis.

The idea that the shape of our solar system is rare is very interesting.
#space

Anyone made the phonetic alphabet but out of space missions haha? Sounds like a fun afternoon
#space

People are gonna fly by the moon!
Scheduled to launch on April Fool's day 😆
#space

Artemis II: NASA’s First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years - NASA
Meet the Artemis II crew and learn how NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby mission will test deep space systems and pave the way for future Moon landings.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Space:
🎵 Female of the Species
#Space
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5beiMMlsINDI5fxRdF0D42

A Physics Informed Neural Network for Deriving MHD State Vectors from Global Active Regions Observations: #SpaceWeather: https://www.swri.org/newsroom/press-releases/new-research-takes-first-step-toward-advance-warnings-of-space-weather

Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a global treasure. Watching his interview with the CBC in relation first to the significance of the Canadian on the Artemis II and on the mission in general is really a delight.
A truly masterful communicator.
His section starts at 4:35
#Canada #Space #ArtemisII

This is now my new favorite #NASA photograph! 🌏🌙
#space

Don't call us, we'll call you.
#artemis2 #nasa #space

#Artemistracker #space
https://artemistracker.com/

Artemis II Mission Tracker
🚀 2 days until Artemis II launch window opens! Track NASA's mission to the Moon in real-time 3D. Launch: Apr 1, 2026.

RE: #space is

Holy shit you guys we just watched #Artemis go from the plane
(Edit: I posted video in the replies, if that's of interest❤️)
#space #nasa

Artemis II reminded me what spaceflight used to feel like—uncertain, human, and a little terrifying.
Not just “cool.” Something more. 🚀
#Artemis #Space

The Moment Spaceflight Felt New Again – Bob Mueller
Artemis II rekindles the wonder of human spaceflight, blending nostalgia, risk, and hope as we take our first steps back toward the Moon.

Explaining the Most Important Artemis II Photos by Hank Green
#space

Amazing how a demonstrably bad idea can still pull in massive funding.
SpaceX's orbiting data center is one such idea. Space isn't "cold", it's a vacuum, the same thing that makes high-performance insulated tumblers work so well. In orbit, shedding heat will be a bigger problem than any faced on earth, such as supplying electricity.
#SpaceX

Let's go #Artemis2 🚀 Anyone else watching?
#nasa #space

Extremely active Sun from 1190 to 1220 in the Medieval Period - intercomparison of historical records and tree-ring carbon-14: #SpaceWeather: https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2026/4/10/medieval-japanese-poetry-and-buried-trees-help-elucidate-volatile-space-weather - combining carbon-14 measurements taken at the highest level of precision with historical literature lays a new foundation for studying unpredictable and hazardous solar proton events.

Mehr Weltraumcontent:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL21kci5kZS9zZW5kdW5nLzI4MTA2MC8yMDI2MDEyNjIyMjAvcmVwb3J0YWdlLWRva3UtaW0tZXJzdGVuLTQwNg

Artemis 2 - Zurück zum Mond - hier anschauen
Zum ersten Mal seit den legendären Apollo-Missionen starten wieder Menschen Richtung Mond. Die NASA-Mission 'Artemis 2' eröffnet eine neue Ära der Raumfahrt und Deutschland spielt dabei eine Schlüsselrolle. Die Dokumentation begleitet die vier Astronaut:innen bei ihren Vorbereitungen und zeigt exklusive Einblicke in das Orion-Raumschiff. Die deutschen Astronauten Alexander Gerst und Matthias Maurer erklären zusammen mit anderen Raumfahrt-Experten, wie die Mission abläuft und warum sie �…

What’s the DIFFERENCE?! Artemis II vs Apollo’s EARTHRISE Moon Photos (2026 vs 1968) by Jared Polin
#space

I have no idea what #musk has been huffing but clearly no one is willing to tell him no. #spacex have developed a really cool re-usable launch system but it seems like hubris to claim managing data centres in space gives you some sort of competitive advantage. Aside from making hardware swaps impossible…

SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission."

It's taking so long, the astronauts are gonna get seasick. 🤢
#artemis2 #nasa #space

What an image!
#space

If China was a democratic country then perhaps you could say the roles of the cold war had somehow reversed, with China being the obvious technological leader in the world, while the USA tries desperately to hold on to its empire, and relevance through naked aggression.
But going to an english-language chinese news site and seeing talk of spacewalks and space stations really drives home how history has kind of flipped.
#usa #China #space #war #IranIsraelWar
http://www.china.org.cn/2026-03/17/content_118386265.shtml

🗺️ New 'Mars GPS' lets Perseverance pinpoint its location within 25 centimeters
#space

New 'Mars GPS' lets Perseverance pinpoint its location within 25 centimeters
Imagine you're all alone, driving along in a rocky, unforgiving desert with no roads, no map, no GPS, and no more than one phone call a day for someone to inform you exactly where you are. That's what NASA's Perseverance rover has been experiencing since landing on Mars five years ago. Though it carries time-tested tools for determining its general location, the rover has needed operators on Earth to tell it precisely where it is—until now.

We are here in the mission.
#space

Apollo 8, Artemis 1 & 2 Orbit Comparison by The Overview Effekt
#space

The Artemis II mission also set a record for "most accomplishment with least attention".
Thanks Mr. President. We couldn't do it without you. 🙄
#Artemis #space #history #sarcasm #distraction

Watch: Artemis II astronauts take questions on their way toward the moon
#space

🌚 Lunar Dust Protection Technology and Evaluation: A Review
#moon #space

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FreakZonePlaylist
Space Yo:
🎵 Boby Jack`
#SpaceYo
https://bobyjack.bandcamp.com/track/space-yo

AH. here is the mission tracker
#artemis #space

Self-driving cars, self-growing cities. Same difference. 💁‍♂️
#sarcasm #space #moon #mars #technology #humanity #future #Musk

It is legitimately exciting that 4 humans might start on a journey around the Moon today!
Godspeed to all of them but especially The Big Unit* Canadian Jeremy Hansen!!
(*my unofficial nickname. the dude is huge, how does he even fit in the capsule!)
#NASA #ArtemisII #Space #Moon #Canada

Feels good to watch a serious person in charge of NASA. Possibly the only one in this government.
Jared Isaacman breaks down NASA’s Moon-to-Mars plan by POLITICO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtBaioBCFZ4

Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from one of Musk's bank accounts to another of Musk's bank accounts.
The AI price bubble popping could have wiped out xAI and thus Twitter with it, but now it's cushioned against that by contracts with a government who can't afford to allow their only real space access to go bust.
So he can subsidize his failing AI business and his unprofitable media-manipulation efforts at Twitter with his government-protected failing exploding space-rocket project.
All protected by the lie which the media keep repeating uncritically that it makes any sense at all to have data centers in space.
What a great businessman.
#musk #spacex #twitter #xai